A ~140m drive on Sol 1175 has brought the rover at the outskirts of the exposed light colored bedrock which will be the field for proximity science and sampling for the next month(s). The new RMC is 53.0000.
The location shown is a triangulation estimate. The path is a guess.
Ex-Astronaut verunglückt: "Earthrise"-Fotograf Anders gestorben
"Earthrise", also Erdaufgang, heißt eines der berühmtesten Fotos der Erde. Geschossen wurde es von Astronaut William Anders an Heiligabend 1968. Nun ist der Apollo-8-Teilnehmer bei einem Unfall gestorben.
Preparations for NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch are in progress.
Launch time: 12:25 pm ET
"The two NASA astronauts aboard, flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, will test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system, including launch, docking, and return to Earth. After a one-week stay docked to the International Space Station, the Starliner and crew will land under parachutes in the western United States."
This morning, Boeing Starliner successfully launched to the ISS for its crewed flight test. Here's an overview of what happened, what the implications for this flight are, and what's next:
Boeing Starliner is gearing up for launch! Liftoff is scheduled for 10:52 am ET. Launch vehicle and spacecraft are both doing great, weather is beautiful, and the launch team is ahead of schedule.
It's gentle excitement, as the REAL excitement will be later this summer. There'll be an English summary by your favourite JAXA science communicator afterwards 🙂
The #JAXA ISAS cleanroom facilities (where no more than 1000 mots of dust per cubic foot are allowed to hang in the air) have been expanded.
Because... we're getting another asteroid!
Part of the sample from asteroid Bennu that was returned by #NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will come to JAXA this summer as part of the agreement between the two teamed space agencies.
New Cosmos post (by me 🤸♀️ ) with a peek at the new facilities:
The Hubble Telescope launched into orbit 34 years ago and is planned continue its journey around the planet until the mid-2030s. Then what? In 2022, billionaire Jared Isaacman announced a proposal to save the program, but NASA turned it down. Space.com tells us why: https://flip.it/ncqMk5 #Science#Space#HubbleTelescope#SpaceExploration#NASA